[eccr] Acts of Citizenship: A Symposium

>Acts of Citizenship: A Symposium
>March 25-27, 2004, Calumet College, York University
>
>Acts of Citizenship is an interdisciplinary symposium on the performance,
>enactment, making and unmaking of citizens, strangers, outsiders and aliens.
>It gathers together scholars who theorize through concrete acts of
>citizenship: those constitutive moments when rights are claimed,
>responsibilities asserted and obligations imposed. The focus is on those
>moments when beings who claim, assert and impose such rights and
>obligations, enact themselves as citizens and, in the process, differentiate
>others as those who are not (strangers, outsiders, aliens). It is those acts
>through which citizens, strangers, outsiders, aliens emerge not as beings
>already defined but active and reactive ways of being with others. Acts of
>citizenship are political insofar as they constitute constituents (beings
>with claims). But they are also often ethical (e.g., courageous), cultural
>(e.g., carnivalesque), sexual (e.g. pleasurable), and social (e.g.,
>affiliation) acts that instantiate political ways of being. To investigate
>acts of citizenship is to draw attention to acts that may not normally be
>considered as political and to demonstrate that indeed their performance
>instantiates constituents. It is also to demonstrate how those acts that are
>Onaturally¹ considered as political in their Onatural¹ environments by their
>very Onature¹ make political acts impossible. How are beings thrown into
>acts that enact us/them as citizens, strangers, outsiders or aliens? If
>indeed acts of citizenship are fundamental ways of being with others, how do
>beings decide between solidaristic (generous, magnanimous, beneficent,
>hospitable, accommodating, understanding or even loving), agonistic
>(competitive, resistant, combative, adverse), and alienating (vengeful,
>revengeful, malevolent, malicious, hostile, hateful) acts towards the other?
>What mobilizes those decisions? A theoretical answer is perhaps impossible.
>But could theorizing concrete acts of citizenship in all its forms provide
>the means through which to differentiate acts that are worth resisting and
>those that are worth cultivating?
>
>Three sets of questions animate this symposium. We hope to investigate the
>following in depth:
>
>How can we define/understand acts of citizenship? Are acts of citizenship
>inherently (or always) exclusionary or inclusionary, homogenizing or
>diversifying, positive or negative? Or do these meanings that we attribute
>to acts only arise after the fact?
>
>Can acts of citizenship happen without being founded in law? Do those beings
>who act as citizens, strangers, outsiders or aliens necessarily (or always)
>act in the name of the law and is it required that they be authorized by it?
>
>Can acts of citizenship happen without a name? Do those beings who act as
>citizens, strangers, outsiders or aliens necessarily (or always) attribute
>those names to their acts?
>
>
>
>Acts of Citizenship: A Symposium
>March 25-27, 2004, Calumet College, York University
>
>There is NO registration fee for this symposium. However, registration is
>required. Please send an email to 
><mailto:(acts /at/ calumet.yorku.ca)>(acts /at/ calumet.yorku.ca)
><mailto:(acts /at/ calumet.yorku.ca)>  and include the following information: full
>name, affiliation and postal address and the day(s) you will be
>participating. Please register before March 15, 2004.
>
>
>
>PROGRAMME
>
>
>
>Thursday 25 March 2004
>
>9:00-10:30 PANEL I (Moderated by John Saunders)
>
>Greg Nielsen. Concordia University. ³Simmel and Bakhtin: On Ethics and
>Cultures of Citizenship²
>Bora A. Isyar. York University. ³OMarching Towards Turkism¹: A Genealogy of
>Ottoman Origins of Turkish Citizenship²
>Melanie White.  York University. ³The Citizen and the Crowd²
>
>10:30-10:45 Complimentary coffee and refreshments
>
>10:45-12:15 PANEL II (Moderated by Ebru Ustundag)
>
>
>Glen Norcliffe. York University. ³Citizens of Modernity: The Highwheel
>Cavalry of The Montreal Bicycle Club²
>
>Anna Secor. University of Kentucky. ³Governmentality, the State and
>Citizenship in Istanbul²
>
>Zoë Newman. University of Toronto. ³How Far We've Come: Spaces of Caribana
>and Queer Pride, National Belonging, and Difference as Spectacle²
>
>12:15-13:00 Complimentary lunch
>
>13:00-14:00 PANEL III (Moderated by Gerald Kernerman )
>
>Alex Lefebvre.  Johns Hopkins University. ³Acts of Citizenship, Revealed:
>Spinoza's Prophets²
>Gil Gaspar. York University ³Antigone¹s Claim of Citizenship²
>
>14:00-14:15 Complimentary coffee and refreshments
>
>
>
>14:15-15:45 PANEL IV (Moderated by Karine Cote-Boucher)
>
>Peter Nyers. McMaster University. ³The Accidental Citizen²
>Davina Bhandar. Trent University. ³Renormalizing Citizenship and Life in
>Fortress North America²
>Cynthia Wright. University of Toronto.  ³Some Pretty Dirty Things: National
>Security, Immigrant Professionals and Detention after September 11²
>
>
>15:45-16:00 Complimentary coffee and refreshments
>
>16:00-17:00  PANEL V (Moderated by Elvan Gülöksüz)
>
>Sherene Razack. University of Toronto. ³The Dangerous Muslim Men, the
>Imperilled Muslim Women and the Civilized European: Constituting the
>International Space of Culture Clash²
>Nergis Canefe. York University. ³Dilemmas in Identity Formation among young
>Canadian Muslims: Tradition, National Belonging and Religious Identity in
>the Diaspora²
>
>
>17:00-18:00 Engin F. Isin. York University. ³Acts of Citizenship²
>
>18:00-18:30 Web site launch
>
>18:30-20:30 Reception
>
>
>
>Friday 26 March 2004
>
>9:00-10:30: PANEL  I (Moderated by Kim Rygiel)
>
>
>Cheryl Teelucksingh. Ryerson University. ³Taking Liberties: Environmental
>Justice and Citizenship²
>Ranu Basu. York University. ³Negotiating Citizenship Through School
>Closures: A Case Study in Toronto¹s Suburban Community²
>Graham Longford. York University. ³Citizen.com: Reconfiguring the Citizen as
>Consumer in the Era of e-Governance²
>
>10:30-10:45: Complimentary coffee and refreshments
>
>10:45-12:15: PANEL II (Moderated by Matt Jackson)
>
>
>Eva Mackey. McMaster University. ³Citizenship, Property, and Contested
>Rights Discourses: Acts Of Citizenship In Local Resistance To Land Claims²
>
>Egla Martinez. York University. ³Citizenship as Repression and Human Rights
>as Practice of Social Justice: Challenges from Guatemalan Maya Women²
>Patricia Wood. York University. ³The ³OSarcee War¹: Acts of Fragmented
>Citizenship²
>
>12:15-13:15 Complimentary lunch
>
>13:15-14:45 PANEL III (Moderated by Gülhanim Çalzskan)
>
>Jasmin Habib. Wilfred Laurier University. ³Between States of Home and
>Belonging²
>Alison Mountz. Syracuse University. ³Acts of Distinction²
>Tanya Basok. University of Windsor.  ³Trade Unions and Migrant Workers: The
>Construction of the Boundaries of Citizenship²
>
>14:45-15:00 Complimentary coffee and refreshments
>
>15:00-16:00 PANEL IV (Moderated by Darryl Burgwin)
>
>Anna Pratt. Brock University. ³Borderlines and Customary Practices²
>William Walters. Carleton University. ³Games with(out) Frontiers: The ³No
>Border² Movement and Citizenship²
>
>16:00-16:30 Complimentary coffee and refreshments
>
>16: 30-18:00 Keynote Speaker
>Ronald Niezen. Humboldt University. ³Indigenous Peoples, Citizenship and the
>Nation-State²
>
>
>Saturday 27 March 2004
>
>12:30-3:30 Roundtable Discussion chaired by Engin F. Isin
>
>A reflexive discussion on the questions raised throughout the conference,
>and reflections on the future of the emerging critical work in citizenship
>studies with contributions from presenters. The role of CSML in this
>intellectual endeavour will also be explored.

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